inherrited private class varriables

[Mark McEahern]

> why can't i access a class private varriable from within a predecessor?

You can, but you have to use the mangled name:

  mangled_name = "_%s%s" % (self.__class__.__name__, "__length")
  l = getattr(self, mangled_name, self.__length)
  print l

Of course, if you don't want to torture yourself, you could just use _length
instead.  ;-)

Cheers,

// mark

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